European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday february 9, 1969 the stars and stripes log 3 Staps int str plus today Darld of mice and students Naples Italy a three Hundred fifty students of a Naples nautical school Are up in arms about a burning new school Issue mice in students stalked out of their classrooms in protest. Their walkout they said was meant to Call attention to two principal de mands 1 Stop the leaks that let sea water into classrooms. 2 rid the school of want no guests in classes said one protest placard. Here s juice in your Eye Catania Sicily a More than 2,000 sicilian Farmers using oranges As weapons attacked the. Provincial government office Here paralysed City traffic and injured three policemen in a Farmers complaining of Low prices poured tons of oranges on City streets hurled oranges against the provincial office and shattered windows and hit the policemen full in the face with bar rages of of the Farmers broke away from the downtown Demon stration and swarmed Over the tracks at the Catania Railroad Sta Tion blocking trains for two hours. The violence was the latest in a growing wave of agitation by Citrus growers in Sicily and Southern Italy for help in shoring up the sagging Orange Market. There s no g ship Athens up strongman Premier George Papadopoulos told visiting foreign newsmen that most greek newspapers Are not censored. But his state ment never saw print in Greece. The greek press printed drastically abridged version of Papadopoulos press Confer ence for 18 journalists from european financial newspapers. I omitted his references to free Dom of the press. Prof is or. Chips again san remo Italy up prof. Richard Jarecki a polish born psychiatrist who was barred from the san remo Casino after he won heavily at Roulette won his Way Back into the Casino City Council which manages the Casino decided after listen ing to two lawyers for Jarecki that the Heidelberg University teacher was not a professional after All. Last month the Council had barred him on the ground that professionals May not play at the Casino. Jarecki who has his own system has consistently denied that he is a professional. His presence at the Casino last month attracted a Large number of bettors Many of whom bet on the same numbers or combinations As Jarecki and won sizable sums.,Jarecki refused to say How much he won. Musical re verse tax complained to a court that the songs were easily audible in his House and asked for a reduction in the taxable value of his property. The court gave Davis a $7 Cut in his taxable value. Ashton England up Frank Davis House on Kilburn Avenue is just across the Road from the Ashton soccer team s practice Field and club night after practice the team s members Sang Bawdy songs As they showered. Davis toy fair opens Nuernberg Germany a economics minister Karl Schiller saturday Cut the ribbon for the 20th International toy fair dubbed by its organizers As the world s 1,350 toy manufacturers Are showing their goods including 92 from England 90 from Italy 62 from France and 37 from the Netherlands. Egypt holding uncooperative jews Cairo up Egypt is holding 225 jews aged Between 20 and35 for refusing to serve in the egyptian armed forces it was Learned spokesman Mohamed Hassan Zayat stressed that no women children or aged persons were among those egyptian chief rabbi Hakim Dowalik said president Gamal Abdel Nasser had promised to gradually release Al the 225 jews still held for Security reasons. The men Are not ailed for their religion Zayat said. The question is will they fight Israel s zionist cover in the round an american Soldier Riding in a helicopter looks Down on a smoke screen rising in a circular fashion Northwest of Saigon. The smoke screen was Laid Down to cover a helicopter assault Landing by troops of the . 25th inf div. A photo store receives face Gem lift London a Mappin an Webb one of London s fanciest jewellers decided it needed Facelift a while ago and called in some workmen to remodel the storefront. While the workmen were Tak ing a break Friday three men arrived with a plywood screen measuring 12 by 6 feet composed of four panels for easy handling and freshly painted Light Green to fit in with the remodelling equipment. They then proceeded to give the store a different Type of Facelift from the one men set the screen up in front of a store window Block ing about three quarters of the Busy sidewalk on Brompton Rodin the fashionable knights Ridge shopping customers went in and out of the store they drilled a Hole about three inches in diameter through the armoured plate a piece of twisted wire they reached through the wind Wand hooked 24 rings valued by the store at about $24,000. One was a Square Cut Emerald flanked by diamonds priced at$7,200. The entire operation took about 15 left the screens behind them and saturday police were looking for any passersby who might have complained to the bogus workmen about the wet paint. North Ireland extremist seeks police Protection Belfast Northern Ireland up maj. Ronald Bunting a protestant extremist Leader saturday asked for 24-hour police j Protection following threats on his life. Gypsy Joan British actress Joan Collins sporting a Gypsy outfit is aglow with enthusiasm at a Rome press con Ference Ballyhoo ing a new italian film siege in which she will Star opposite German actor Mathieu Carrier. A hands off czech chiefs italian red warns Russ Bologna Italy up communist Leader Luigi Longo opened his party s 12th Congress saturday with a Strong denunciation of the soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and warned Moscow against overthrowing the present czech leadership. A soviet delegation headed by the Central committee Secretary Boris n. Ponomarev listened As the 88-year-old Leader of the West s largest communist party reaffirmed his party s stand on the czech invasion to cheer from 900 delegates. Longo never mentioned the soviet Union by name but he referred to the invasion an said our position of dissent and disapproval was immediate and called for full respect of the autonomy and sovereignty of every communist party and every socialist state an rejected the soviet Assumption to be a guiding party for world communist movement Longo praised the present czechoslovak leadership and said their authority is a precious Patrimony for the czechoslovak people for All socialist coun tries. It is therefore in the common interest that nothing is done neither in Czechoslovakia no outside it that can break this authority he said in what clearly was a warning to the russians against seeking to replace the czech Liberal regime. In his speech Longo also re affirmed the communist opposition to italian membership in the North Atlantic treaty Organiza Tion and said if nato Ever draws the italian people int War they will use All their arms to overthrow the regime that intends to carry them to on Domestic politics Longo pledged the communists will refuse to Back extremist groups demanding the destruction of the present italian political system. Bunting 46, said he had received threatening letters and Telephone Calls warning him notto fight the election which was called by the Premier. o Neill. Bunting self styled Comman Dant of the militant Loyal Citi Zens of Ulster organization had been selected by a fellow extremist the Rev. Ian Paisley to contest the parliamentary seat held by Commerce minister Roy Bradford. One caller threatened me with death if i split the vote and let labor win the seat Bunting said. Free on bail both Bunting and Paisley Are free on bail pending their Appellof jail sentences for unlawful As Sembly and assaulting a police officer. O Neill and the Bunting Paisle groups Are at almost completely different ends of the spectrum in Northern Ireland which has been the scene of violence Over the past few months As the Cath Olic minority sought equal catholics mainly want one Man one vote and More Job opportunities. Meanwhile o Neill made a determined bid saturday to Block rebel unionist Back Benche Swinning nominations from local election it was the revolt of 12 Back benches in parliament which forced o Neill to Call the Gen eral election which is set for feb. 24.the opposition nationalist party is being challenged in its traditional roman Catholic Strong holds by members of the civil rights association who Are run Ning As independents or Mem Bers of the tiny labor party. O Neill and his unionists rethought virtually certain to re Tain control of the country of 1.5million. O Neill favors Reform and the granting of civil Ireland is part of the United kingdom but runs it sown internal affairs
